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    Agent-relative consequentialism captures commonsense mora... — Carmelics
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    Agent-relative consequentialism captures commonsense moral intuitions in transplant-type cases better than agent-neutral consequentialism.

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    • 1.Agent-relative consequentialism requires observers to adopt the agent's perspective when judging whether an act is wrong for that agent.
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    • 2.Commonsense moral intuitions hold that the doctor should not kill one patient to save five, even if doing so would reduce total killings.
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    • 3.Agent-relative consequentialism can justify the intuitive verdict that the transplant would be wrong for the doctor to perform.
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    • 1.Agent-relative consequentialism captures transplant intuitions only by smuggling in deontological constraints that are irreducible to value rankings.
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    • 2.If agent-relative weights are doing the normative work, the view is consequentialism in name only, as Scheffler's asymmetry objection demonstrates.
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    • 3.A theory that requires ad hoc relativization of value to preserve intuitions sacrifices explanatory unity without gaining genuine theoretical advantage over hybrid views.
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    • 1.Commonsense intuitions in transplant cases are best explained by agent-relative *constraints*, not agent-relative *values*, as Nagel argues in 'The View From Nowhere'.
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    • 2.Recasting deontological side-constraints as agent-relative disvalues misrepresents their logical structure: constraints are not merely values the agent weighs heavily, but categorical prohibitions.
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    • 3.Agent-relative consequentialism thus fails to accurately model the commonsense intuitions it claims to capture, because it treats as scalar what commonsense treats as lexically prior.
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    This kind of case leads some consequentialists to introduce agent-relativity into their theory of value (Sen 1982, Broome 1991, Portmore 2001, 2003). To apply a consequentialist moral theory, we need to compare the world with the transplant to the world without the transplant. If this comparative evaluation must be agent-neutral, then, if an observer judges that the world with the transplant is better, the agent must make the same judgment, or else one of them is mistaken. However, if such evalu
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